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Quote by Ibn al-Rumi
How can I submit tamely to disgrace seeing that the Persians are my maternal uncles and the Rum my parental uncles?
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The speaker questions how they could quietly accept disgrace when both sides of their family are linked, through the images of maternal and paternal uncles, to the Persians and the Rum. The comparison presents surrender as a dishonour not only to the speaker but also to these powerful family connections.
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- University of Glasgow PhD thesis, *The Poetry of Ibn al-Rumi*
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